[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Dawn Revisited
Imagine you wake up/ with a second chance: The blue jay/ hawks his pretty wares/ and the oak still stands, spreading/ glorious shade. … The whole sky is yours/ to write on, blown open/ to a blank page. Come on,/ shake a leg!
Rita Dove
What if life is a series of second chances? In that universe, the consequence of failure is learning and growth. In that universe, judgement is an honest and gentle conversation with ourselves. In that universe, criticism is drowned out by a chorus of angels singing an expansive invitation. In that universe, competition is dancing with our edge. In that universe, life and death are embraced by understanding. In that universe, syllables comfort. In that universe, we keep score of kindness and are grateful for it all. In that universe, imagination breads possibility and shape explodes.
That is the dawn I want to revisit. That is the universe I want to live in.
About Katie
From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
Buy the Book!
The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
